Senate confirms Trump ally Jeanine Pirro as top federal prosecutor for DC | Trump administration
The US Senate confirmed Jeanine Pirro – a former Fox News host and a agitated ally of Donald Trump who stimulated lies that he lost the presidential race in 2020 due to electoral fraudsters – as the main federal prosecutor of the national capital.
PIRRO – A former district prosecutor of New York State and Comté judge who joined Fox News in 2011 – was confirmed on Saturday during a vote of 50-45 according to the party parties.
In a statement published by Pirro after the vote, the Republican said that she had been “blessed” to have been confirmed as a Washington DC lawyer. “Prepare yourself for a real crime fighter,” said Pirro’s statement, who called the American prosecutor’s office, she had been confirmed to lead the largest in the country.
Before his media career, Pirro spent more than a decade as a republican district prosecutor in the county of Westchester, New York, and was also a county judge.
She hosted her own Fox Justice program with Judge Jeanine. And more recently, she has become co-host of the Fox Show the Five.
Pirro used his time at Fox News in part to publicly support the baseless affirmations that Trump lost his first presidency against Joe Biden in 2020 due to electoral fraud. In 2021, she was one of several Fox News hosts appointed in the defamation trial against Fox News by Dominion Voting Systems, which accused the network of knowingly disseminating false claims on the company’s voting machines after the elections of the previous year.
Fox finally settled the trial for $ 787.5 million and acknowledged that fraud allegations were false.
Pirro has been as an acting prosecutor in the United States since May, when his republican colleague Trump appointed him in the post-months of his second presidency. She was nominated after Trump withdrew the appointment of conservative activist Ed Martin, her first choice for the role. A key republican senator, Thom Tillis de Caroline du Nord, said that he would not support Martin’s appointment.
By announcing the appointment of Pirro in May, Trump welcomed his file and said that she was a “powerful crossing for the victims of the crime” and someone who “excelled in all ways”.
“Jeanine is incredibly well qualified for this position,” added the president.
The American prosecutor general, Pam Bondi, published an exhilarating Pirro declaration on Saturday as “a warrior for law and order”.
At the end of his first presidency, Trump forgave the former husband of Pirro, Albert Pirro Jr, after being sentenced in 2000 for federal accusations of fraud and tax evasion.
Pirro is one of Trump’s many loyalists with links with Fox who joined the president’s administration. Among the other eminents, let us quote his colleague ex-Fox News, Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense besieged, and the former personality of Fox Business Sean Duffy, the secretary of besieged transport.
In June, the American senator Adam Schiff accused Pirro of “blind obedience to Donald Trump is almost unequaled among his ardent supporters”.
“For an important prosecutor like this, the country has the right to demand a serious official and principle of principle,” said Schiff. “Jeanine Pirro is not that.”
Despite Pirro’s confirmation, the US Senate left Washington DC on Saturday evening for his recess by August for an agreement to advance dozens of Trump candidates despite days of controversial bipartite negotiations.
A furious Trump made social networks and told the Democrat leader of the Senate Chuck Schumer to “go to hell!”
